Unable to migrate Photoshop Actions (Actions Palette.psp) into M 1 MacBook Pro (Vers. 11.4)

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July 12, 2021
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I was trying to follow Adobe's instructions on doing this but I don't see the macOS path they recommend to find the location to install the .psp file I copied from my iMac to the MacBook Pro. Adobe's article is called "Actions are Missing"; this article also included a section to migrate actions from one computer to another.

The path they recommend is Users/<user name>/Library/Preferences/adobe Photoshop <target version> Settings; I just don't see it. I have already contacted Apple for help but to no avail.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

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sherrym16897585Author

Participating Frequently

Thank you all for your great advice. I guess I was overthinking this issue. I did download the .atn files, use a thumb drive, and load them into the Macbook Photoshop actions. I definitely got confused regarding the .psp file and Adobe's instructions on migrating actions.

You are the greatest!

Thanks again!

Sherry

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

It can get confusing, however, you did the right thing by saving as .atn for each action set. Keep a backup of the .atn files, way too many people lose years of work by not saving out their actions. More here:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/01/photoshop-custom-action-file-backup.html

https://github.com/MarshySwamp/Backup-Photoshop-Settings

https://prepression.blogspot.com/2017/11/downloading-and-installing-adobe-scripts.html

sherrym16897585Author

Participating Frequently

Thanks, Stephen, that's a really good point! I would not have thought much about that.

Sherry

Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

As already suggested by @D Fosse , you can save actions as .atn file anywhere on computer. Use zipping tool to compress them optionally then send to yourself using email, or upload somewhere like Google Drive then download on new machine, unzip and load or copy/paste in default location to have them listed from Actions panel menu.

If you still have problem please provide more details.